The open source plans can be found online through a global grassroots community called Precious Plastic. Our process began by building the two machines shown above: the Shredder and Extruder.
The extruder (Photo courtesy of Richard Wilks) Our team is a mixture of a core group of passionate, skilled crafts-people and a fluid, changing crew of recycled plastic-curious volunteers. I’m also sharing my knowledge and educating artists and school groups so they will become ambassadors for their communities and share the skills and knowledge they learned on this Burning Man project. In addition, we will rely on the sun for our power and we have invested in a solar powered system. “Liquid Forest 2023” will be made from more than a half ton of waste plastic that will be kept out of our landfills and oceans. From plastic waste to custom rods (Photo courtesy of Richard Wilks) We Never “Waste” an Opportunity to Share Our Mission Exposed strobe lights activate the phénakistiscope art disks when the jellies spin!Įach sculpture will have a unique light show and will sync up with the others to create a totally immersive environment.
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A phénakistiscope is one of the earliest animation devices it utilizes a spinning disk to animate a series of pictures into a single moving image.Īt night, the radically illuminated jellies will pulse and morph to create an artful ‘bio-luminescent’ playground! Each sculpture contains more than 10,000 LEDs concealed in the recycled plastic rods.
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They can also make use of my free app ‘ilumiscope’ to view the hidden phénakistiscope artwork. Each one is a free-standing, hands-on spinning sculptural experience.ĭuring the day, citizens will dance, whirl and flow through the family of jellies as lacy, sunlit shadows wash over them. “Liquid Forest 2023” includes three whimsical, jellyfish-inspired creatures standing between 12’-15’ by 15’ in diameter. “Liquid Forest 2023” by Richard Wilks (Rendering courtesy of Richard Wilks) Onward to “Liquid Forest 2023” I’ll share more about our recycling process below. This “source” jellie sculpture is made almost entirely from recycled plastic that I, along with a team of passionate volunteers, sourced, shredded, melted and re-formed into curved tentacle strands. I debuted “Liquid Forest: The Source” at Black Rock City 2019 this gave me the opportunity to learn how it would perform in a highly inhospitable environment - and with spirited human participation! This highly interactive sculpture is the “source” for a much larger, mystical and surreal “liquid forest” composed of many whimsical, jellyfish-inspired creatures. “The Source” was created in 2019 and was the first phase of an evolving project. Inspired, I decided to pivot my art practice and start creating large sculptures made almost entirely from waste plastic! In the Beginning: “Liquid Forest: The Source” I felt compelled to act!Īround the same time, Burning Man Project announced its goal to be carbon neutral by 2030. Scientists have drilled down and are exposing the ticking time bombs of micro and nano plastics in our oceans, air, mountaintops and within our bodies. Massive plastic polluters only care about profits not people. The environmental crisis humanity has created is overwhelming. Their story brings together so many things we love - a community of makers collaborating around a shared project to create beauty from the waste stream while sharing techniques for transforming plastic trash into objects that can be beautiful and useful. What does it take to create wonder from the tragedy of waste plastic pollution? Richard Wilks and the Liquid Forest community are busy crafting magical sea creatures through a custom process that melts waste plastic into awe-inspiring playa sea beings.
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